Author: Florence Paterson

Jean Frances & Stéphane Le Lay

The CSI Guests Seminar will host Jean Frances ENSTA Bretagne (FOAP-CNAM), associate researcher at GSPR-EHESS and Stéphane Le Lay Institut de psychodynamique du travail, Paris to discuss the book they co-authored with Jean-Marc Corsi Ma thèse en 180 secondes Quand…

Guillaume Louvet

Title of the thesis: Investing for “mineral sovereignty”. France’s critical metals supply policies. Supervisers: Brice Laurent and Béatrice Cointe. Guillaume Louvet’s doctoral thesis focuses on the analysis of the development of a French strategy for securing supplies of critical metals.…

Patrick Brodie (University Dublin College)

The next session of the Seminar on Digital Environmental Policies organized by the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI Mines Paris – PSL) and the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) will be held on In support of the…

Energy Transitions and Planning. A. Missemer & D. Russ

February 2, 2023. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” will welcome Antoine Missemer and Daniela Russ. Energy Transitions and Planning. Adopting a historical perspective spanning several parts of the world, this seminar will explore the inclusion of energy in economic thought and organization.  How have economists and engineers approached energy issues? How has this influence the spatial, industrial, and political organization of the economy?

Guillaume Blanc (Université Rennes 2)

February 14, 2023. The CSI Guests Seminar will welcome Guillaume Blanc Tempora (UR 7468), Université Rennes 2 to discuss his book L’invention du colonialisme vert Pour en finir avec le mythe de l’Éden africain Introduction to the discussion: Clément Foutrel.

Hafid Ait Sidi Hammou

Title of the thesis: The role of data in the sustainable maintenance of public networks. Supervisor: Jérôme Denis. With the proliferation of “smart territories” projects in recent years, data is becoming a public policy issue at the local level. This…

Stine Engen

Title of the thesis: Green finance and the turning of climate change into climate risk. Under the supervision of Kristin Asdal (TIK-Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway) and Liliana Doganova (CSI, Mines Paris-PSL). I’m interested in…

The Great Climate Fair: Semiotics of COP27

Béatrice Cointe

COP27 ended on the morning of November 20. If the results of the COPs are widely commented on, less is heard about their scenography. However, it says a lot about the state of the climate problem and how it is dealt with. […]

Doctoral thesis defense of Jean Danielou

December 15, 2022. Jean Danielou will defend his thesis in Social Sciences, specialized in STS (Sciences, Technologies & Society) “En transition. Quand ENGIE se reterritorialise sous l’effet du réchauffement climatique (2016-2020)” [Transitioning. When ENGIE reterritorializes under the effect of global warming (2016-2020)]. Doctoral thesis prepared at Mines Paris – PSL, Center for the Sociology of Innovation, under the Social Sciences programme of the EOS (Economics, Organisation, Society) Doctoral School.